כָּבוֹד CauseMatch Vendor Registry

The Trusted Registry

A searchable roll of vendors for Jewish nonprofits — where no one can list themselves. Every entry was nominated by a real CauseMatch client who staked their name on it. Search, filter, and read the endorsement before you ever reach out.

This seal means a client vouched — on the record, with their name and organization.

he registry lists only vendors a client would stake their reputation on. There is no application, no paid placement, no self-listing. A CauseMatch client nominates someone they hired — and that nomination, with a name attached, is the entry.

Filter above, or read the featured entry in full below. Ordered by standing in the community.

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No. 001 · FEATURED

Brand & Campaign Design

Ateret Creative

Miriam Adler · Founder & Creative Director

Jerusalem remote · US orgs

“Campaign identities and matching-day microsites for Jewish nonprofits.”

B Recommended by Rabbi David Cohen, Beth Shalom Academy — & Hillel International
6 orgs endorsed 11× hired by the community Responds ~3h
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No. 002

Fundraising Video & Story

Kol Rina Media

Dovid Weiss

Brooklyn, NY remote

“Short films that make donors feel the mission.”

R Recommended by Rivka Klein, Campaign Chair, Yeshiva Ohr — “People cried at the dinner. Then they gave.”
4 orgs endorsed 7× hired
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No. 003

Galas & Kosher Events

Simcha Event Productions

Rivka Stein

Los Angeles, CA

“Annual dinners run like clockwork, glatt kosher.”

A Recommended by Aaron Gold, ED, Maimonides LA — “Our biggest night of the year, and I didn’t worry once.”
5 orgs endorsed 9× hired
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No. 004

Heritage & Mission Trips

Nesiya Journeys

Eli Bar-On

Jerusalem remote planning

“Donor and leadership missions to Israel.”

✦ Recommended by 3 member organizations
3 orgs endorsed
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No. 005

Nonprofit CRM & Salesforce

Tzedakah CRM Partners

Naomi Ashkenazi

remote

“Your donor data, finally trustworthy.”

✦ Recommended by 4 member organizations
4 orgs endorsed 6× hired
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No. 006

Premium Print & Mail

Ohr Print House

Shimon Weber

Monsey, NY

“Mailers donors keep on the fridge.”

✦ Recommended by 3 member organizations
3 orgs endorsed
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אֵמוּן Registry entry No. 001 · Nominated

Ateret Creative

Miriam Adler · Founder & Creative Director · Brand & Campaign Design · Jerusalem, works remotely with US orgs

6
Organizations endorsed
11×
Hired via the community
~3h
Typical response

Miriam started Ateret because Jewish organizations deserve design as serious as their mission. Her work turns a fundraising strategy into a campaign a whole community feels proud to share — from the annual-appeal identity to the matching-day microsite that carries it.

What she does

Brand systems Annual-campaign creative Matching-campaign microsites Donor mailers Rebrands

Projects · the outcome, not the title

Beth Shalom Academy — annual rebrand & $2M matching microsite

A refreshed identity paired with a matching-day campaign site for the day school’s annual appeal.

38%more raised than the prior year

Federation Giving Tuesday toolkit

A templated social + email kit built once, then handed to the network to run themselves.

20partner organizations adopted it

In the client’s words · endorsements on the record

Miriam understood our community before she designed a single pixel. The campaign brand felt like us — and it raised more than any year before.
D Rabbi David Cohen
Executive Director · Beth Shalom Academy · Chicago, IL

What she didAnnual campaign rebrand + the $2M matching-day microsite.

She turns a fundraising strategy into something people actually want to open.
S Sarah Feldman
Director of Development · Hillel International · remote

What she didCampaign creative and donor communications, delivered fully remote.

חֶסֶד In the vendor’s own words

Voice note · auto-transcribed

“I started Ateret because Jewish organizations deserve design as serious as their mission. My favorite projects are the ones where the campaign becomes something the whole community feels proud to share.” — Miriam Adler, from her recorded introduction

Photo: Miriam / the studio at work — a warm portrait in place of the seal on the live profile.

Photo: the Beth Shalom matching-day microsite on a phone at a community gala.

חֶסֶד How every entry is made

Two voices, in this order

An entry is never written by the vendor. It starts with the person who hired them — that’s the part that can’t be faked. The vendor’s own voice comes second, for warmth.

1 First · the trust layer

A short interview with the client

We ask the reference 5–8 questions: what was the need, what did the vendor do, what changed, and would you hire them again. Their answers become the endorsement and the project story — with their name and organization attached.

Yields the named endorsement — the hard-to-fake trust triangle

2 Later · the warmth layer

A voice note from the vendor

Once nominated, the vendor records a short note about what they do and their favorite project. It’s auto-transcribed and shown as “in their own words” — the story layer, kept visibly separate from the client’s endorsement.

Yields the voice & story — recordable from a phone over WhatsApp

Where this direction wins — and where it loses

The registry is the familiar model done to a high standard. An honest read so it can be compared against the four other directions.

✦ Where it wins

  • Instantly legible — everyone already knows how to search and filter a directory, so there’s nothing to learn.
  • The nomination seal and named “Recommended by” badge turn a plain listing into something that reads as earned and prestigious.
  • Each profile is a single-player asset a vendor is proud to share in a proposal or email signature, even before anyone browses.

— Where it loses

  • It leans on the buyer to browse and choose — no matchmaking, so a busy ED still has to do the shortlisting themselves.
  • Directories can feel like a database; without traffic, thin categories (Print, Missions) look sparse rather than curated.
  • It surfaces trust but doesn’t route it — you don’t see which orgs like yours hired whom the way a referral graph would show.

Sample profiles shown are illustrative.